This picture taken in the early days of the Administration. It is being used for the cover of The President’s Man. The president is reviewing a document with me. The doors and windows in the background of my office lead out to the Rose Garden.
1954 on our Derby, Kansas farm with mother, Betty June, dad Spencer and sister Linda. That summer we moved to Brentwood, in West Los Angeles.
With My Quarter Horse ”Pat”. We won a White Ribbon Barrell racing in the local Rodeo.
[L to R] Aunt Nan, mother, Nano Helena, my head, Great Grandmother Taylor, Dad, Grandad Dwight Chapin, Grandfather “Pop” Helena. Cousins Ross, Nancy’s head, Don and sister Linda.
The revived USC political party, “Trojan’s for Representative Government”, (TRG) wins 1962 Student Body election.
Bart Leddel, Don Segretti and me at our USC 50th Class Reunion.
August 18, 1963. We were married in the garden of Susie’s family home in Hope Ranch, Santa Barbara, California.
Christmas 1967— Kimberly is 2 ½ years old and Tracy 6 months. Cos Cob. CT. Starting the 1968 Presidential Campaign year.
Nixon” Man in the Arena”— Innovative political television. Oklahoma’s famous Coach, Bud Wilkinson was moderator. The first of what was, in later years, to be called “Town Hall Meetings”.
Nixon comforts widow of MLK, Coretta Scott King, after the assassination during our private visit to the family home in Atlanta.
Mrs. Nixon and me working on the plane during 1968 campaign.
I was the only person with a camera. The new President-elect looks at the television in amazement. John Ehrlichman’s arm goes up along with a shout of victory. The morning sun streams through the window. His long wait has ended.
White House the morning of January 20, 1969. President Johnson and President Elect Nixon talking in the Red Room before leaving for the Inauguration at the Capitol. Standing a few feet away, I was witnessing this historic moment.
Ollie Atkins, the White House photographer took this picture in the Rose Garden. Spring 1969.
My White House Credentials.
September 1969 Newport Beach, CA. With the President boarding the Columbia, America’s Cup racing yacht, for an afternoon sail on the Pacific ocean.
Telegrams and letters on the President’s desk the response to his November 3, “Silent Majority” speech to Nation on Viet Nam Policy.
Western White House. Nixon greets Kissinger upon his from secret trip to China. The world learned of the trip that evening with Nixon televised announcement.
With my counterpart, Han Hsu and White House press advance man Tim Elbourne. Han was later the Chinese Ambassador to Washington.
On the Great Wall with Kissinger.
October 1971. Kissinger, Chou En-lai and me. This banquet picture ran in a news magazine and identified me as “Kissinger Aide”. Henry autographed the picture with the salutation, “To Dwight Chapin—the only aide who has ever survived. Highest Regards, Henry A. Kissinger.”
Aboard Air Force One. February 1972. Reviewing plans with Haldeman and Higby. Kissinger across aisle. Kissinger Secretary Julie Pineau at copier. Kissinger Aide Cmdr. Jonathan Howe standing. Winston Lord far back on left. Muriel Hartley Kissinger Secretary behind Haldeman.
President Nixon on Air Force One.
President Nixon on Air Force One. Studying briefing books on way to China. With Kissinger.
“Snapshot”, Tim Elbourne and “Road Runner”, Ron Walker, at The Forbidden City, Peking.
Military Aide Jack Brennan, Me, General Brent Scowcroft, General Al Redman and Nell Yates. Hawaii 1972.
The Arrival. February 21, 1972 Primer Chou Enlai greeting President and Mrs. Nixon. The moment “The Week that changed the World” began.
First Afternoon in Peking. President meets Chairman Mao.
This on plane meeting with Chinese officials. We are flying from Peking to Hangchow.
A snowy February 1972 Peking morning. Ron Walker (Front Right) and I are leading the President, Mrs. Nixon and their party on a tour.
President Nixon and Henry Kissinger toasting one another after the SALT agreement was signed in Moscow.
Mrs. Nixon and Kissinger watch as President addresses the people of the USSR on live television from the Green Room in the Grand Kremlin Palace.
In the Oval Office with the President, Bob Haldeman and John Ehrlichman.
This picture of the president with the King (Elvis) is the most requested picture, still to this day, in the history of the National Archives.
1972 GOP Convention Floor Meeting. (R to L) Dick Moore, Terry O’Donnell, Mark Goode, me, Bill Carruthers, Sandy Abby Mike Duval’s back and Ron Walker.
1972 GOP Convention, Miami Florida [L to R] Bill Carruthers, Roy Goodearle, Dick Howard, Dwight Chapin and Henry Cashen.
This Roosevelt Room picture shows me talking to John Ehrlichman with Henry Kissinger and Pat Moynihan listening. In the background Ron Ziegler is talking with Dr. Arthur Burns.
Here at the reopening of the Nixon Library exhibits, I am demonstrating an interactive Foreign Policy kiosk to Henry Kissinger.
W. Clement Stone with me in his Villa studio.
Henry Kissinger and the president conferring in a private moment. Picture taken in the Oval Office.
Jack Burton, Kimberly, Dan Burton, Tracy, Matthew Maher Terry, Me, Emily Burton, Chase Maher, Jeff Maher The Point—Greenwich, Connecticut.
East Hampton, NY, Main Beach.